Trustees approve medical building

November 16, 2006|By Jody Paige

BOLINGBROOK — The first of three medical office buildings to be added to the new Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital campus received the go-ahead on Tuesday night.

Trustees approved construction of a three-story, 74,298-square-foot building next to the hospital at 396 Remington Blvd. It is expected to house 20 to 25 office suites, including an entire floor for a woman's imaging center, hospital officials said. Construction is underway for the four-story Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital a 300,000-square foot, 138-bed facility due to open in October.

The medical center is expected to be the first of three to be built on the north side of the hospital campus and will be connected to the hospital by a heated and air conditioned walkway, hospital officials said.

Also on Tuesday, the Village Board approved plans for a special-use permit for a parking lot that will allow Rocket Ice Arena, 180 Canterbury Lane, to move forward with a second NHL-size ice rink at its facility. In the late 1990s the Park District sold its aging wave pool, and it was filled in and turned into an ice rink.

The board also approved an agreement with Redspeed Illinois LLC for cameras to be installed at four intersections throughout the village early next year. Tickets carrying fines of as much as $100 will be mailed to drivers who run red lights at those intersections.

Mayor Roger Claar said the locations have not been determined. He said the project would be of no cost to the village because the company will take its share of the fines, and the balance will go to the village.